QH3 Run 754, The Free Trade, Sileby. 18/03/2012

HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY TO THE QUORN HASH 

Location of Quorn H3 run No 1 and run 754 (which hasher left the mobility scooter outside?)

To celebrate the Quorn Hash's 25th birthday we returned to The Free Trade Inn in Sileby where it all began on 29th March 1987. Hare for the today was Hare Razor Rasher, 25 years ago it was our founder Mango. It was the first time back to this location since 1999 when Wallington set run 276. Overnight and early morning rain made the going soft. Indeed the weather was not too different to that of the first run (see Run 1 Scribe).

Wallington - Quorn Hashing
since run No. 2

Wallington turned up in his run No. 2 T-shirt and with an album of photos from the first run. He used to  live in Sileby and when the QH3 came into town he joined in and has been coming ever since. He was made RA for the day.

Hashers filtered in for a late start at 11:15, including Barritone on bike, fortunate to realise trains don't stop in Sileby on Sundays so he had to get off in Loughborough instead. Late as we were, we didn't wait for Too Tuf and Chicki. Numbers today even meant we had the luxury of groups of walkers (Skids, Butt Plug, Shagulater and co-hare Eager Beaver) and non-walkers. I don't know which trail the walkers did but, later in the circle, they were able to describe the sexual activities of the Sileby ducks. With no sheep today Barritone expressed his disappointment in missing the duck action.

First point of interest - Mr Bacon introduced
us to his friends

Plenty to see and do on the main hash trail. Rasher didn't disappoint us with a short one. I did a trail of  8.51 miles (see Durex Run 754), Bugger 8.00 miles , Malteaser 7.2 miles and Chicki 13:05 (still working on the use of her new GPS). First point of interest, so Rasher thought, was a pig stop. What does one do at a pig stop (marked PS)? Wallington thought it was a "Pit Stop" (change shoes?), Bugger a little further down the trail had a piss (Piss Stop), and I took a picture (Picture Stop).

The disturbing thing about this trail was the number of times Malteaser was out in front doing checking whilst I was stuck at the back returning from another long false trail. I thought we had the same breakfast. Must check in for another service soon.

The hare kept us all together with a couple of holding checks, not that they were needed as the pack was kept together with excellent checks. Hashers were keen to head back to Sileby with more than 5 miles done but the hare just kept directing us away. We were even joined by Chicki and Too Tuf for most of the run, don't often see them checking.

By the time I returned the walkers had been back a while. A timely return - as the last hasher entered the car park the heavens opened and we all dashed into the pub. Bugger entertained us with a pile of old hash scribes/rag mags and Wallington old hash photo albums. Butt Plug left early leaving us to struggle through chips, sandwiches, sausage-rolls and pork pies made for twenty. Plus of course the shortcake hash feet made by Goblin.

The rain stopped and the Quorn had its first outside circle in a long while. Stand-in RA (Wallington) awarded down downs including:
1. Bugger for pissing on the hash.
2. Shagulater for voyeurism (ducks having sex).
3. Barritone for being duckless and another for sustenance to cycle home.
4. Malteaser for a computer related problem.
5. Skids, replaced by lookie-likie Chicki, for cupious pink.
6. An Irish look-alike for St Patricks Day (Wallington fell into that trap by wearing green)
7. and of course the hare (plus one), Rasher (and Eager Beaver) for a good run. Gets my vote over Butt Plug's any day.